Stigmella malella (Stainton, 1854)

van Nieukerken, Erik J., Laštůvka, Aleš & Laštůvka, Zdenĕk, 2006, The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of mainland France and Corsica: an annotated catalogue (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea), Zootaxa 1216 (1216), pp. 1-114 : 25

Stigmella malella (Stainton, 1854)

F: Nepticula malella ; Peyerimhoff 1872a: 138 —[67+68]; Sand 1879: 201— 36; Joannis 1909:

822— 56; Gélin & Lucas 1915: 137— 33, 56; Le Marchand 1925a: 32— 50 Stigmella malella ; Aguilar 1959: 213— 78, 93, 94; Lhomme [1963]: 1191— 10, 33, 36, 50, 56, 79,

92; Aguilar & Chambon 1970: 15 —‘France’, no locality given; Leraut 2003: 17— 77 CO: Nepticula malella ; Skala 1938: 31— 20 Excluded record: Nepticula malella ; Jourdheuille 1883: 215— 10 [mines on Pyrus ]; Brown &

Gouin 1917: 406— 33; en août et septembre [possibly E. spinosella ]

Material. 38: TM, 6 km NE Grenoble : S. slope Mt. St. Eynard , 900–1100 m, 26.vi.1983, Malus sylvestris , EvN; 66 : VM, Las Illas , 8 km SW Le Perthus , 550 m, 31.vii.1982, Malus domestica , EvN.

Remarks. The apple leaf miner has not been recorded as often as one would expect. Several papers deal with the pest aspects of this species in the region of Paris. Vacated mines potentially could be confused with the rarer Stigmella desperatella , but the green larvae separate the latter from the yellow S. malella larvae.